Marc Kienle

Marc Kienle
Personal information
Date of birth22 October 1972
Place of birthRuit, West Germany
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing positionDefender/Midfielder
Youth career
TSV Plattenhardt
–1991Stuttgarter Kickers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1991–1994VfB Stuttgart (A)20(7)
1991–1995VfB Stuttgart67(7)
1995–1998MSV Duisburg36(2)
1998–2000Karlsruher SC46(2)
2000–2001Alemannia Aachen14(1)
2002–2003MSV Duisburg52(4)
2004–2006MVV67(2)
2006Wormatia Worms3(0)
Total305(25)
National team
1992Germany U-212(0)
Teams managed
2013–2015SV Wehen Wiesbaden
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Marc Kienle (born 22 October 1972) is a German former footballer who last managed SV Wehen Wiesbaden.[1] As a player, he spent six seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart and MSV Duisburg.

Playing career

Kienle played youth football for Stuttgarter Kickers, before joining city rivals VfB Stuttgart in 1991. He made his debut for the club on the opening day of the 1991–92 season, as a substitute for Alexander Strehmel in a 1–0 defeat to MSV Duisburg, and made a further nine appearances during the season as Stuttgart won the Bundesliga title. The following season he only made six appearances, all as a substitute, but scored three times, including both in a 2–0 win over 1. FC Köln after replacing Fritz Walter. He made 23 appearances during the 1993–94 season, again mostly as a sub, and became a regular starter in 1994–95, with 28 appearances as Stuttgart settled into a mid-table position.

Kienle was to drop to the 2. Bundesliga, though, joining MSV Duisburg. He made 31 appearances during the 1995–96 season as Duisburg were promoted in third place, but only made five appearances in the next two seasons combined, and didn't feature in the club's run to the 1998 DFB Cup Final, which they lost against Bayern Munich. In 1998 he signed for Karlsruher SC who had just been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga, and missed out on promotion during his first season, finishing fifth. The following year Karlsruhe finished bottom of the table, and were relegated to the Regionalliga Süd, so Kienle left the club.

Kienle stayed in the 2. Bundesliga, signing for Alemannia Aachen, making fourteen appearances during the 2000–01 season as the club finished 10th. He then returned to MSV Duisburg, where he made over 50 appearances in the next two seasons as the club finished in mid-table in the second tier. He spent the first half of the 2003–04 season without a club before joining Dutch Eerste Divisie side MVV, where he would spend the next two and a half years. He returned to Germany in 2006, joining Wormatia Worms of the Oberliga Südwest, but retired shortly after the beginning of the 2006–07 season.

Coaching career

After retirement, Kienle returned to VfB Stuttgart as a youth coach, before taking up a similar position with Bayern Munich in 2012. In October 2013, he took his first senior management job, replacing Peter Vollmann at SV Wehen Wiesbaden. By co-incidence, two of his former MSV Duisburg team-mates, Dietmar Hirsch and Horst Steffen, had begun their managerial careers in the same division during the same season. He was sacked on 12 April 2015.[2]

Honours

References

  1. "Kienle, Marc" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  2. "Wehen Wiesbaden stellt Marc Kienle frei" (in German). dfb.de. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.

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